Finally a smart fun horror flick with a totally drool worthy lead.

Rating: 10/10 (9 July 2003)

This movie ROCKED!!! Not only has Danny Boyle made the first zombie movie with zombies that are actually scary, but he's also managed to make an intelligent film that asks (if not answers) some interesting questions about human nature and what it means to survive. Boyle offers up for our consideration three very different possible forms of survival, i.e. Selena and Mark's, Frank and Hannah's, or the Army boys', each of which seems to work just fine up until it is threatened by the ideas of another. Is survival itself the only thing that's important? Would one method of survival work better than another? Is there a morally 'better' way of continuing when the world has gone to hell? Does morally exist in the face of extinction and death? Would the rest of the world quarantine Britain and sacrifice its people to protect itself? Perhaps the film never truly answers these questions, perhaps it doesn't even try, but the fact is, it brought them up and I could kiss the writer for doing that. Too often horror films, and films of other genres rely so heavily on the conventions of their types that they fail to ask the questions which naturally arise from their subjects and I commend the makers of 28 Days Later for not falling into this idiotic, mind- numbing routine. Also, I think it brilliant that the filmmakers were able to create such and tense and thrilling atmosphere given the relatively few shots and sequence with the zombies. The music, the cinematography and the editing all come together in this film to deliver classic horror movie chills which had me glued to my seat my knees pulled into my chest the whole time. And finally the characters, and they are great characters, were so evidently what the filmmakers chose to focus on and for good reason. Jim and Selena both cores of the film are a fabulous horror film pair, I love strong women in horror films, and i think that the players did fabulous jobs with making the audience empathize, and genuinely care for them. I think they are two fabulous young actors and I for one wish them great success.